Waxing
Gibbous ♓ Pisces
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waxing Gibbous 84% illuminated
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 84% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon phase and lunation details
3 days after First Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 8 October 2054 at 13:19.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon is entering ♓ Pisces
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1768"
Lunar disc appears visually 8.4% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1768" and ∠1923".
Hunter Moon after 4 days
Next Full Moon is the Hunter Moon of October 2054 after 4 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- Full Moon in Aries ♈ on 16 October 2054 at 17:44
- Last Quarter in Leo ♌ on 24 October 2054 at 02:39
- New Moon in Scorpio ♏ on 30 October 2054 at 20:01
- First Quarter in Aquarius ♒ on 7 November 2054 at 08:34
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 677 / 1630
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 677 of Meeus index or 1630 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.43 days
Length of current 677 lunation is 29 days, 10 hours and 12 minutes. It is 2 hours and 20 minutes shorter than next lunation 678 length.
Lunation length shorter than mean
Length of current synodic month is 2 hours and 32 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 37 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠23.7°
This New Moon true anomaly is ∠23.7°. At beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠44°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep increasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of apogee (∠180°).
Moon in apogee
Moon is reaching point of apogee on this date at 01:43, this is 12 days after last perigee on 29 September 2054 at 23:51 in ♍ Virgo. Lunar orbit is starting to get closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth for 15 days ahead, until it will get to the point of next perigee on 28 October 2054 at 01:15 in ♍ Virgo.
Distance to Moon 405 118 km
This apogee Moon is 405 118 km (251 729 mi) away from Earth. It is 290 km farther than the mean apogee distance, but it is still 1 591 km closer than the farthest apogee of 21st century.
Moon in descending node
Moon is in descending node in ♒ Aquarius at 01:43 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet ascending node on 25 October 2054 at 21:32 in ♌ Leo.
Draconic month
13 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♌ Leo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
Moon after southern standstill
4 days after previous South standstill on 7 October 2054 at 22:45 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.290°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.417° in the next northern standstill on 22 October 2054 at 10:52 in ♋ Cancer.
Syzygy in 4 days
After 4 days on 16 October 2054 at 17:44 in ♈ Aries, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.